Max On Call

(This is a favor for Ginna since she's out of town and can't post tonight)
I'm on call right now. It usually isn't too bad, but it can be sucky. Of course, Max is on call too. He often takes my pager and I'll find it clipped on his pants, in his bed or somewhere else in his room. Since I actually have to hear the pager and answer when it rings I can't let him play with it when I'm on call, which really bums Max out. Fortunately, he found an old travel alarm clock that belongs to Ginna and started pretending that it was his pager. It fits in his coat pocket and has a big display with the time on it similar to the display on my real pager. It even lights up in the dark, which he loves.

Saturday was Ginna's birthday and I wanted to take her shopping at the mall. The pager had been ringing like crazy all morning. I figured that meant it was less likely to ring and we'd be alright shopping.
Great foreshadow right? As soon as we got to the mall my pager rang. I wasn't very happy about it. Especially because I had to go to the hospital right away for a (pointless in my opinion) consultation. I told Ginna to hurry and try a few things on then we'd leave for the hospital. While Ginna was in the dressing room, Max and I sat along the wall and played games on the cell phone.
Suddenly, something started beeping. It sounded like a pager, but it wasn't mine. Max heard it, turned to me and said "not again!" I couldn't tell what was happening. Something that sounded like a pager was ringing right near us, but it wasn't my pager. It had to be Max. I started digging in his pockets and found his "pager" ringing. His eyes lit up so big. "It's MY PAGER!"
Max then proceeded to take the cell phone and pretend call the hospital. He is crazy. I guess the alarm was set for that time in the afternoon, but we had no idea. What's better than pretending something and then having it come to life?

Anyway, Max is often on call. He has a plastic gorilla mouth that uses playdoh teeth. He frequently gets call to fix gorilla teeth. He even has a plastic instrument kit to use. I'm sure Ginna posted some pictures of it previously. Maybe she'll find them and link them.
And thanks to my mom, who made Max some scrubs to wear when he is on call, because he looked really goofy in my scrub shirts.